From Fairy Tales to Serious Stuff; Two Generations in Tech
summary
Stories and concrete experiments about bias and inclusion: a job posting rewrite changes female applicants from 10% to 45%, a teen uses an app to make 16 phones as 16 speakers for a gym routine, a Turbo Pascal tutoring sprint turns a student from panic to top of class, and a referenced study finds boys and girls each shift their recalled scores by about 3%, enough to redirect career choices. Practical fixes and small numbers drive the claims.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:34Janet Gregory
- 7:08Susan Bligh
- 13:06delusions of gender
- 20:56signs of stereotypes
- 25:18extra work
- 30:01age is relative
- 38:44Susans story
- 44:37Equality vs Equity vs Justice
- 46:59Writing a story
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